Dogs and Other Plays
by Elangovan

Talaq: Divorce
by Elangovan

About This Book
This controversial one-woman play was first presented in Singapore on 24 December 1998, and twice in February 1999, performed by the depicted character herself. An unforgettable interpretation of one woman's experience of domestic violence, desolation and divorce has shocked some in the Singapore literary and Indian Muslim circles. The president of the theatre group, Agni Kootthu (Theatre of Fire) was arrested for her persistent attempt to perform the play in English and Malay in October 2000. The play was banned in Oct 2000. Bilingual in English and Tamil. With support from the National Arts Council Publishing and Translation Grant.

Buang Suay and Other Plays
by Elangovan

Flush
by Elangovan

About This Book
Two plays by the provocative Singapore playwright Elangovan: "Flush," a monologue was performed at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in the 1^st International Festival of Monologues in 2001, and "Oxygen" at The Substation in the same year. Both plays launch their ideas from settings in contemporary Singapore and both have given rise to shock, controversy and some admiration. The book received the Singapore Internationale Award 2002 from the Singapore International Foundation.

Oodaadi (Medium)
by Elangovan

Mines
by Elangovan

About This Book
MINES is a play by provocative Singaporean playwright Elangovan. It is set amidst a fictitious war between Malaysia and Singapore and touches on racism, patriotism and the differences between both sides. This thought-provoking play, which was given a last-minute go-ahead for staging by the authorities, challenges the notion of peace and harmony in the Singaporean urban life. Elangovan, considered a pioneer in Tamil poetry and experimental Tamil theatre in Singapore, has had his plays staged worldwide and won the Southeast Asia (SEA) Write Award in 1997 for his contribution to literature and theatre in Singapore. With support from the Lee Foundation for publication.

O$P$
by Elangovan

1915
by Elangovan

About This Book
1915 is a collection of two plays: 1915 and Romusha.  1915 re-explores the Singapore Mutiny by the  Indian Army’s 5^th Light Infantry Battalion on Monday 15^th February 1915 through the eyes of the mutineers, British and ordinary people in then Singapore. Romusha (Slave Labourer) rearticulates the silenced voices of history in World War II when Japan sent an estimated 70,000 Asian slave labourers from Singapore and Malaya to complete the infamous 415 km  Siam-Burma Death Railway. The book is an artistic register of the horrors of politics, war and oppression. The book received the Singapore Internationale Award 2005 from the Singapore International Foundation.

Smegma

by Elangovan

About This Book

The performance licence for the play Smegma, written by the established and controversial Singapore playwright Elangovan, was issued and then cancelled by the Media Development Authority in August 2006. The play has not yet been seen by the public. Here is the banned script which deals directly and indirectly with some of the most crucial and sensitive issues which lurk in today's Singapore.

P
by Elangovan

About This Book

P (SHIT), contains two plays, P and Motcham (Salvation). Here, we see Elangovan continue his tradition of producing socio-political allegories.

I, BOSE

by Elangovan

About This Book

A collection of two plays: I. BOSE and TRANSPORTATION. I, BOSE exposes the impregnable mystery of the death of the forgotten hero Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, and explores the numerous conspiracy theories. TRANSPORTATION captures the displacement and suffering, cultural denigration and crisis of identity that ensues from all forms of estrangement in the colonial period in the penal settlements. It reconstructs the experiences of native criminals and political prisoners transported overseas to the penal settlements established by the British, from the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, in Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Islands.. With support from the National Arts Council Publishing Grant.

Elangovan’s books are available in Singapore at:
http://www.selectbooks.com.sg  &   http://www.earshot.com.sg

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